Fidelity to commitment in the face of doubts and fears is a very spiritual thing.
I believe love is primarily a choice and only sometimes a feeling. If you want to feel love, choose to love and be patient.
The only comfort comes in thinking about how nice it was to know them, and how nice it was to brush against goodness for a season.
I?m telling you, things are getting out of hand. Or maybe I?m discovering that things were never in my hands.
The world is indeed full of peril, and in it there are many dark places; but still there is much that is fair; and though in all lands love is now mingled with grief, it grows perhaps the greater.
If a man is called to be a streetsweeper, he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music, or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, here lived a great streetsweeper who did
America is the land of wide lawns and narrow minds.
The price of greatness is responsibility.